Full London RibFest returns to Victoria Park this weekend
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The festival, which opens Thursday and runs until Monday, marks the first time a full-sized RibFest has been held in Victoria Park since 2019.
Wet naps will be in high demand in downtown London, Ont. this weekend as the city’s annual RibFest heats up in Victoria Park.
The festival, which opens Thursday and runs until Monday, a civic holiday, marks the first time a full-sized London RibFest has been held in the park since before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
No RibFest was held in 2020 and last year’s was pared down as a result of the pandemic, utilizing only a fenced-off area in the southeast quadrant of the park. While Ribber’s Row was in its usual spot on Wellington Street, there were fewer vendors and no midway rides.
That won’t be the case this year, said Doug Hillier, president of Family Shows Canada, which puts on the London RibFest.
“This is going to be like the old days before COVID … (with) lots of vendors. That’s coming back. Unlike the one we had to do last year with just the ribbers, now we have the ribbers and all the other food vendors in the park,” he said.
Ten of Canada’s top ribbers will be back, lined up along Wellington competing against one another for the festival’s top prize.
“(They) compete all year long in ribfests all over Canada, and then London, the first ribfest ever in Canada, hosts the top 10 ribbers,” Hillier said.
Among those competing are Boss Hogs, Louisiana BBQ, Kentucky Smokehouse, Oak & Barrel, Texas Jack’s, Smokehouse Bandits, Fat Boys BBQ, Silver Bullet BBQ, Gonzalez BBQ and BubbaLou’s, which Hillier says was started by someone who helped found RibFest.
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